US judge gives Mexican drug smuggler 27 years in prison

Updated 1:46 pm, Thursday, December 1, 2016

CHICAGO (AP) — A Mexican national who smuggled drugs into the U.S. for two cartels has been sentenced to 27 years in prison by a federal judge in Chicago.

The U.S. attorney's office said in a statement Thursday that Judge Ronald Guzman sentenced 48-year-old Manuel Fernandez-Valencia on Wednesday. Mexican authorities arrested Fernandez-Valencia in 2010 and he pleaded guilty in the U.S. last year to one conspiracy count.